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Basicly, a bot that sends a series of pre-typed messages to a number of users.
Well, whatdaya think? The Republican 00:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia talk:Did you know:
The
archive section at the bottom of
Template talk:Did you know is getting very long. Reading the source of that section, it seems that
User:AllyUnion used to run a bot that archived old DYKs in that section. Does anyone object if I reuse
the code and make another DYK archiving bot?
Kimchi.
sg 07:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
We need a bot to archive DYKs from Template talk:Did you know#Archive into Wikipedia:Recent additions and archive old entries from Wikipedia:Recent additions to another archive page (details are in User:AllyUnion/did you know.pl, does anyone want to help? Kimchi. sg 15:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be beneficial (imo) to have a bot to remove links to pages that redirect back to the current article (i.e. X shouldn't link to Y if Y is a redirect to X). I'm no programmer (otherwise I'd work on this myself!) but I'd have thought that it should be possible to do this by checking the what links here information and then unlinking anything that links to any redirect pages in the list. This might need to be a human-supervised bot (or AWB function?) as there may be occasions when the link is apropriate. It should only deal with the main namespace - links on talk could be useful and/or out of date relating to page moves/mergers. Possbily it would be of benefit in the Wikipedia: namespace if WP: shortcuts are explicitly ignored. Thryduulf 23:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Would someone be able to copy all our userboxes (working definition: everything in Category:User templates), their associated categories, and the images they link to, over to [1]? Seahen 01:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting that someone run a bot to keep the List of protected pages up to date. This is being discussed at: Wikipedia talk:List of protected pages. — xaosflux Talk 18:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This task would be as simple as examining Special:Log/protect and storing the most recent entry for each page encountered. Examining each line would yield:
Disregarding articles where the most recent action was "unprotected", the bot could examine the others and sort them chronologically in a table like this:
date/time | page | user | move | |
---|---|---|---|---|
22:26, May 5, 2006 | George W. Bush | Deskana | semi | semi |
But ideally, this functionality should be a built-in feature, analogous to the Special:Ipblocklist. — May. 8, '06 [05:25] < freakofnurxture | talk>
Many articles under Category:Council elections in England and its subcategories have entries for by-elections with dates formatted "dd/mm/yyyy". An example is "Boney Hay By-Election 20/02/1997" on Lewes local elections#By-election_results. Is it feasible to do a bot to wikify these dates? Generally these by-election results seem to have the same standard format. -- A bit iffy 12:08, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Over at Current events we're floating around a couple of new systems with several goals in mind, a couple of them being simplifying the monthly archiving process (when Current events is moved to April 2006, for instance) and then solving the issue of having only one day's worth of events on May 1 because all the previous ones were archived. My current proposal is to create a page for every date ( May 1, 2006 for instance) and then just listing the last <<fixed_number>> date pages in Current events as templates. The hassle of monthly archiving would be virtually eliminated as the only necessary maintenance would be creating a new monthly page before the end of the month, creating 31/30/28 blank daily pages, and inserting them all into the monthly page as templates. The monthly page would begin blank but will fill up as each date's window of exposure passes at Current events (or of course if anyone chose to edit them afterwards).
Where we need your help is that every night we would need the oldest date removed from Current events and then the current date template inserted at the top of the list. I'm wondering if any current bot owners would be willing to add to their bot's daily activities the nightly rollover at midnight, and then the monthly mass creation of new, blank date pages (should this reach consensus as the new method which with a bot owner on board I think it would)? — GT 14:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I am aware that this proposal was not popular here, but I would like to request one to run on the Commons. The Commons does not have such a strong community as en.wp and it is quite important that we keep trying to promote essential information such as licensing requirements, to save both users and admins a lot of hassle. I brought up this idea on commons:COM:VP and it was well-received.
On the 14th May we had 163 new users register; on the 13th, 185. So probably 150-200 is a typical daily number. The possibility to restrict welcomes to users who have made at least one edit or one upload would also be welcome.
Thanks, pfctdayelise ( translate?) 13:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC) ( en or commons)
If you get it successfully working, would you mind to leave me a note too? We've discussed this on Wikiquote, and if there is a working copy of one, I'd like to be able to offer it for demonstration. Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 14:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
commons:User:Orgullbot is now doing this, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Run by commons:User:Orgullomoore. pfctdayelise ( translate?) 01:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to have a robot named Babylon5. Before I read that I must request it, So What should I do??? -- MehranVB 08:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I want a bot that can do everything that are in the other sections above. eisenhower U T C 18:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, is there already a bot for adding {{ linkless}} to all pages on the long, long Special:Lonelypages list? If not, could someone write one? It would not have to run all the time, just for a short time each time the Special:Lonelypages page is regenerated. This would be beneficial for Wikipedia: the Siegenthaler page only lasted as long as it did because it had almost zero links in. When someone sees an article with {{ linkless}}, though, they will be encouraged to add links to it from elsewhere. Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 22:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Could someone create/run a 'bot that would check commons:Commons:Deletion requests that 1) downloads the image, 2) superimposes a big red X over the image, 3) re-uploads the new version of the image? This would benefit many sister-projects, as well as Wikipedia. (Some discussion is at commons:Commons:Village pump#Random image deletion.) -- Connel MacKenzie 18:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Do we have an existing bot that checks for the existence of hyphens in spelled-out fractions? It would look for common word pairs I guess like "one third", "two thirds", etc. and add in the hyphens between them.-- Hooperbloob 05:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Looking through the Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles page it struck my attention that there are really a lot of requests for the 19xx Pulitzer Prize or Oscars. Now, for the Pulitzer at least, the data are available at http://www.pulitzer.org/. Would it be possible to make a bot to do the drudge work of capturing the data from there and wikifying it? Copyright is ever troublesome, of course, but the format of the existing 19xx articles does not seem to vary significantly from the hypothetical output of such a bot. - Pthag 00:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a bot that is open to do jobs? I needs a bunch of phrases to be changed to italics, can anyone help? Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 12:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I deleted Image:Perfecto.icon.svg (redundant with Image:Flag of Canada.svg). Someone was using it in their signature... so I don't know if it's worthwhile replacing all of the link references or deleting them all. If nobody wants to set a bot on them, I don't see a problem with leaving them alone. ~ MDD 46 96 01:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone have a Bot that could add {{Template:Architecture}} to the talk page of each article in Category:Architecture, Category:Architects, Category:Architectural history, Category:Architectural elements, Category:Buildings and structures, Category:Architecture by nationality, Category:Landscape architecture and other related categories (Listed on Portal:Architecture). Many thanks--
A few days back I found a featured picture that did not have a {{ FeaturedPicture}} template on it. Thinking as a one-off case, I added the template. Today, I found another such image. This made me think that there might be many more such cases. Can we have a bot which will do the following:
The bot will need to run once every month or so to check for consistancies. - Ambuj Saxena ( talk) 17:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I actually already have a bot, approved without a bot flag, NedBot. However, I'm still learning how to use phyton, pywikipedia, regex, and all that fun stuff. But I've been pretty busy with work and all, and so far have just used the basic text replacement and category functions that are included with pywikipedia.
I would be really greatful if someone could help me get the bot to place a message at the top articles found in a category, and possible in targeted section as well. The bot was approved for providing assistance to WP:DIGI, and we wanted to add a message to editors to help combat a large amount of anon users who were adding unsorted information. Something to the extent of <!-- Please cite character attack blah blah, such information without a source could be deleted at any time-->. (the exact message, if you are interested, is being discussed on our WikiProject's talk page) Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ned Scott 05:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon') pagetext = digipage.get() pagetext = '<!-- blah --> + pagetext digipage.put(pagetext)
digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon') pagetext = digipage.get() pagetext = replaceExceptMathNowikiAndComments(pagetext, '==Section==', '==Section==\n<!-- blah blah -->) digipage.put(pagetext)
Is there a bot for use in the field of chemistry? One that can place and edit chemboxes? If not there should be, this is getting really tedious... - jak (talk) 21:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
There are two images in commons, Image:Big cookie.jpg and Image:Choco chip cookie.jpg. Big cookie.jpg is only used in en:. If you could replace the image, it can be deleted on commons. -- Lyzzy 06:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Could someone get a bot to replace all instances of Image:Republican-AusFedFlag.png with Image:Australian Federation Flag without Union Jack.svg? Most of them are subst:'ed userboxes, it seems. Cheers! + Hexagon1 ( t) 12:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
As an editor of some articles and other things that got put up for deletion, I think it would be great if there was a a "courtesy bot" that informed past editors of the thing. Perhaps the bot would insert a post on the editor's talk page. Note: I don't think watching is a good solution, because the decision to watch something isn't (in my case) related to all articles I care about, but rather ones I feel are especially critical to watch at any given time. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 16:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
This might be semi-practical, if:
— Jun. 14, '06 [18:27] < freak| talk>
I have been updating the individual year pages in Category:Establishments by year. At the moment all of the pages from Category:1870 establishments to Category:2006 establishments have been done. A few of the pages prior to 1870 have also been done. The change involves going from:
to
where:
A bot which updates the remaining pages would be great. Greenshed 18:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Wow, before you go any further, you might look into m:ParserFunctions. The {{expr:}} notation might make this task a lot easier. — Jun. 14, '06 [18:35] < freak| talk>
Simple enough, really. I think we should have a bot which makes the following edit on the talk page of each new user:
The edit summary will read, "Welcome!"
Thoughts? -- Alex S 22:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
The bot should check external links, and tag those that fail with {{ cleanup-link}}. This will add the article to Category:Articles with broken links, and allow interested humans to investigate and either repair or delete as appropriate. Robert A.West ( Talk) 00:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Doing a text search for the phrase " 2 types" I found numerous cases where the digit should be spelled out (for numbers less than ten (eleven?)). If a human-assisted bot could include searches for " 'n' types" and " 'n' categories" this would help. If there are other grouping names that could be included that would be great, I've only considered of those 2...er. two! -- Hooperbloob 05:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Kia Ora, I was wondering if there is much chance of someone getting a bot thingy to change the uses of "Maori" to "Māori", which is more correct. Many thanks. -- Midnight tonight 10:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone changed "Sasha" into a disambig page which broke like a hundred links. Can someone run a bot to change all links that currently point to "Sasha" to now be piped links to "Alexander Coe"? Thanks a bunch! Wickethewok 16:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I moved Fordham Spire to 400 North Lake Shore Drive double redirects need to be fixed. -- Kalmia 07:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Could some please program a bot to replace all instances of Image:Vatican coa.png (which is being used under a "fair-use" claim) with Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg (which is public domain)? There must be well over a hundred pages (including categories, where fair-use images have no business anyway) it's being used on. Thanks. User:Angr 17:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The Mediation Committee has for some time been interested in a bot to open new cases and a few other tasks. We had arranged with one coder to program the bot, but the project fell aside, and we're now interested in finding someone with the time to program it for us.
A few requirements:
The basic task is opening cases on RfM. When activated, the bot should search the pages transcluded to Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Pending for pages containing {{ Accepted case}}. (If doing so is difficult, I'm open to listing cases in another spot for the bot to check, in addition to /Pending. I'd really prefer that the template be the activator, but another similar option is acceptible.) If it doesn't find the template, it should shut down and do nothing until the next activation by crontab. If it finds that template, it should:
That is the basic task set for the bot. We would also like to be able to:
If it would be easier to code two separate bots, one to do the regular case opening and a second to do periodic notifications (I know there are existing notification bots, like the Signpost's bot and the Esperanza newsletter bot), then we can have MediationBot and MediationBot2 or something.
Anyone with the requisite experience to code the above, and the patience to deal with a non-programmer, is invited to contact me directly via my talk page. This has been approved by the Mediation Committee, and is being undertaken as an official Committee project. If successful, we would like to be able to offer a similar bot to our sister committee, the Arbitration Committee, obviously customized to thier specific needs, and subject to thier desire to use it. For the Mediation Committee, Essjay ( Talk • Connect), Chairman, 12:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 |
Basicly, a bot that sends a series of pre-typed messages to a number of users.
Well, whatdaya think? The Republican 00:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia talk:Did you know:
The
archive section at the bottom of
Template talk:Did you know is getting very long. Reading the source of that section, it seems that
User:AllyUnion used to run a bot that archived old DYKs in that section. Does anyone object if I reuse
the code and make another DYK archiving bot?
Kimchi.
sg 07:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
We need a bot to archive DYKs from Template talk:Did you know#Archive into Wikipedia:Recent additions and archive old entries from Wikipedia:Recent additions to another archive page (details are in User:AllyUnion/did you know.pl, does anyone want to help? Kimchi. sg 15:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
It would be beneficial (imo) to have a bot to remove links to pages that redirect back to the current article (i.e. X shouldn't link to Y if Y is a redirect to X). I'm no programmer (otherwise I'd work on this myself!) but I'd have thought that it should be possible to do this by checking the what links here information and then unlinking anything that links to any redirect pages in the list. This might need to be a human-supervised bot (or AWB function?) as there may be occasions when the link is apropriate. It should only deal with the main namespace - links on talk could be useful and/or out of date relating to page moves/mergers. Possbily it would be of benefit in the Wikipedia: namespace if WP: shortcuts are explicitly ignored. Thryduulf 23:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Would someone be able to copy all our userboxes (working definition: everything in Category:User templates), their associated categories, and the images they link to, over to [1]? Seahen 01:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting that someone run a bot to keep the List of protected pages up to date. This is being discussed at: Wikipedia talk:List of protected pages. — xaosflux Talk 18:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This task would be as simple as examining Special:Log/protect and storing the most recent entry for each page encountered. Examining each line would yield:
Disregarding articles where the most recent action was "unprotected", the bot could examine the others and sort them chronologically in a table like this:
date/time | page | user | move | |
---|---|---|---|---|
22:26, May 5, 2006 | George W. Bush | Deskana | semi | semi |
But ideally, this functionality should be a built-in feature, analogous to the Special:Ipblocklist. — May. 8, '06 [05:25] < freakofnurxture | talk>
Many articles under Category:Council elections in England and its subcategories have entries for by-elections with dates formatted "dd/mm/yyyy". An example is "Boney Hay By-Election 20/02/1997" on Lewes local elections#By-election_results. Is it feasible to do a bot to wikify these dates? Generally these by-election results seem to have the same standard format. -- A bit iffy 12:08, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Over at Current events we're floating around a couple of new systems with several goals in mind, a couple of them being simplifying the monthly archiving process (when Current events is moved to April 2006, for instance) and then solving the issue of having only one day's worth of events on May 1 because all the previous ones were archived. My current proposal is to create a page for every date ( May 1, 2006 for instance) and then just listing the last <<fixed_number>> date pages in Current events as templates. The hassle of monthly archiving would be virtually eliminated as the only necessary maintenance would be creating a new monthly page before the end of the month, creating 31/30/28 blank daily pages, and inserting them all into the monthly page as templates. The monthly page would begin blank but will fill up as each date's window of exposure passes at Current events (or of course if anyone chose to edit them afterwards).
Where we need your help is that every night we would need the oldest date removed from Current events and then the current date template inserted at the top of the list. I'm wondering if any current bot owners would be willing to add to their bot's daily activities the nightly rollover at midnight, and then the monthly mass creation of new, blank date pages (should this reach consensus as the new method which with a bot owner on board I think it would)? — GT 14:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I am aware that this proposal was not popular here, but I would like to request one to run on the Commons. The Commons does not have such a strong community as en.wp and it is quite important that we keep trying to promote essential information such as licensing requirements, to save both users and admins a lot of hassle. I brought up this idea on commons:COM:VP and it was well-received.
On the 14th May we had 163 new users register; on the 13th, 185. So probably 150-200 is a typical daily number. The possibility to restrict welcomes to users who have made at least one edit or one upload would also be welcome.
Thanks, pfctdayelise ( translate?) 13:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC) ( en or commons)
If you get it successfully working, would you mind to leave me a note too? We've discussed this on Wikiquote, and if there is a working copy of one, I'd like to be able to offer it for demonstration. Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 14:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
commons:User:Orgullbot is now doing this, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Run by commons:User:Orgullomoore. pfctdayelise ( translate?) 01:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to have a robot named Babylon5. Before I read that I must request it, So What should I do??? -- MehranVB 08:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I want a bot that can do everything that are in the other sections above. eisenhower U T C 18:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, is there already a bot for adding {{ linkless}} to all pages on the long, long Special:Lonelypages list? If not, could someone write one? It would not have to run all the time, just for a short time each time the Special:Lonelypages page is regenerated. This would be beneficial for Wikipedia: the Siegenthaler page only lasted as long as it did because it had almost zero links in. When someone sees an article with {{ linkless}}, though, they will be encouraged to add links to it from elsewhere. Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 22:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Could someone create/run a 'bot that would check commons:Commons:Deletion requests that 1) downloads the image, 2) superimposes a big red X over the image, 3) re-uploads the new version of the image? This would benefit many sister-projects, as well as Wikipedia. (Some discussion is at commons:Commons:Village pump#Random image deletion.) -- Connel MacKenzie 18:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Do we have an existing bot that checks for the existence of hyphens in spelled-out fractions? It would look for common word pairs I guess like "one third", "two thirds", etc. and add in the hyphens between them.-- Hooperbloob 05:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Looking through the Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles page it struck my attention that there are really a lot of requests for the 19xx Pulitzer Prize or Oscars. Now, for the Pulitzer at least, the data are available at http://www.pulitzer.org/. Would it be possible to make a bot to do the drudge work of capturing the data from there and wikifying it? Copyright is ever troublesome, of course, but the format of the existing 19xx articles does not seem to vary significantly from the hypothetical output of such a bot. - Pthag 00:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a bot that is open to do jobs? I needs a bunch of phrases to be changed to italics, can anyone help? Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 12:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I deleted Image:Perfecto.icon.svg (redundant with Image:Flag of Canada.svg). Someone was using it in their signature... so I don't know if it's worthwhile replacing all of the link references or deleting them all. If nobody wants to set a bot on them, I don't see a problem with leaving them alone. ~ MDD 46 96 01:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone have a Bot that could add {{Template:Architecture}} to the talk page of each article in Category:Architecture, Category:Architects, Category:Architectural history, Category:Architectural elements, Category:Buildings and structures, Category:Architecture by nationality, Category:Landscape architecture and other related categories (Listed on Portal:Architecture). Many thanks--
A few days back I found a featured picture that did not have a {{ FeaturedPicture}} template on it. Thinking as a one-off case, I added the template. Today, I found another such image. This made me think that there might be many more such cases. Can we have a bot which will do the following:
The bot will need to run once every month or so to check for consistancies. - Ambuj Saxena ( talk) 17:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I actually already have a bot, approved without a bot flag, NedBot. However, I'm still learning how to use phyton, pywikipedia, regex, and all that fun stuff. But I've been pretty busy with work and all, and so far have just used the basic text replacement and category functions that are included with pywikipedia.
I would be really greatful if someone could help me get the bot to place a message at the top articles found in a category, and possible in targeted section as well. The bot was approved for providing assistance to WP:DIGI, and we wanted to add a message to editors to help combat a large amount of anon users who were adding unsorted information. Something to the extent of <!-- Please cite character attack blah blah, such information without a source could be deleted at any time-->. (the exact message, if you are interested, is being discussed on our WikiProject's talk page) Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ned Scott 05:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon') pagetext = digipage.get() pagetext = '<!-- blah --> + pagetext digipage.put(pagetext)
digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon') pagetext = digipage.get() pagetext = replaceExceptMathNowikiAndComments(pagetext, '==Section==', '==Section==\n<!-- blah blah -->) digipage.put(pagetext)
Is there a bot for use in the field of chemistry? One that can place and edit chemboxes? If not there should be, this is getting really tedious... - jak (talk) 21:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
There are two images in commons, Image:Big cookie.jpg and Image:Choco chip cookie.jpg. Big cookie.jpg is only used in en:. If you could replace the image, it can be deleted on commons. -- Lyzzy 06:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Could someone get a bot to replace all instances of Image:Republican-AusFedFlag.png with Image:Australian Federation Flag without Union Jack.svg? Most of them are subst:'ed userboxes, it seems. Cheers! + Hexagon1 ( t) 12:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
As an editor of some articles and other things that got put up for deletion, I think it would be great if there was a a "courtesy bot" that informed past editors of the thing. Perhaps the bot would insert a post on the editor's talk page. Note: I don't think watching is a good solution, because the decision to watch something isn't (in my case) related to all articles I care about, but rather ones I feel are especially critical to watch at any given time. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 16:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
This might be semi-practical, if:
— Jun. 14, '06 [18:27] < freak| talk>
I have been updating the individual year pages in Category:Establishments by year. At the moment all of the pages from Category:1870 establishments to Category:2006 establishments have been done. A few of the pages prior to 1870 have also been done. The change involves going from:
to
where:
A bot which updates the remaining pages would be great. Greenshed 18:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Wow, before you go any further, you might look into m:ParserFunctions. The {{expr:}} notation might make this task a lot easier. — Jun. 14, '06 [18:35] < freak| talk>
Simple enough, really. I think we should have a bot which makes the following edit on the talk page of each new user:
The edit summary will read, "Welcome!"
Thoughts? -- Alex S 22:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
The bot should check external links, and tag those that fail with {{ cleanup-link}}. This will add the article to Category:Articles with broken links, and allow interested humans to investigate and either repair or delete as appropriate. Robert A.West ( Talk) 00:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Doing a text search for the phrase " 2 types" I found numerous cases where the digit should be spelled out (for numbers less than ten (eleven?)). If a human-assisted bot could include searches for " 'n' types" and " 'n' categories" this would help. If there are other grouping names that could be included that would be great, I've only considered of those 2...er. two! -- Hooperbloob 05:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Kia Ora, I was wondering if there is much chance of someone getting a bot thingy to change the uses of "Maori" to "Māori", which is more correct. Many thanks. -- Midnight tonight 10:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone changed "Sasha" into a disambig page which broke like a hundred links. Can someone run a bot to change all links that currently point to "Sasha" to now be piped links to "Alexander Coe"? Thanks a bunch! Wickethewok 16:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I moved Fordham Spire to 400 North Lake Shore Drive double redirects need to be fixed. -- Kalmia 07:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Could some please program a bot to replace all instances of Image:Vatican coa.png (which is being used under a "fair-use" claim) with Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg (which is public domain)? There must be well over a hundred pages (including categories, where fair-use images have no business anyway) it's being used on. Thanks. User:Angr 17:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The Mediation Committee has for some time been interested in a bot to open new cases and a few other tasks. We had arranged with one coder to program the bot, but the project fell aside, and we're now interested in finding someone with the time to program it for us.
A few requirements:
The basic task is opening cases on RfM. When activated, the bot should search the pages transcluded to Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Pending for pages containing {{ Accepted case}}. (If doing so is difficult, I'm open to listing cases in another spot for the bot to check, in addition to /Pending. I'd really prefer that the template be the activator, but another similar option is acceptible.) If it doesn't find the template, it should shut down and do nothing until the next activation by crontab. If it finds that template, it should:
That is the basic task set for the bot. We would also like to be able to:
If it would be easier to code two separate bots, one to do the regular case opening and a second to do periodic notifications (I know there are existing notification bots, like the Signpost's bot and the Esperanza newsletter bot), then we can have MediationBot and MediationBot2 or something.
Anyone with the requisite experience to code the above, and the patience to deal with a non-programmer, is invited to contact me directly via my talk page. This has been approved by the Mediation Committee, and is being undertaken as an official Committee project. If successful, we would like to be able to offer a similar bot to our sister committee, the Arbitration Committee, obviously customized to thier specific needs, and subject to thier desire to use it. For the Mediation Committee, Essjay ( Talk • Connect), Chairman, 12:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)